Music of Chopin’s Time is a series of recordings from the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. The aim of the series is to compile a splendid collection of works from Chopin’s musical world in the most outstanding interpretations by artists with an interest in recovering lost beauty.

In recent years, there has been growing interest in the output of Polish composers who, in the shadow of the great exiled genius Chopin laid the foundations of musical culture in their native land. Dobrzynski’s youthful Piano Concerto in A flat major, op.2, was not performed during his lifetime. The composer never proof-read the score or edited the text. In 1986, the manuscript, held in the Warsaw Music Society Library, was reconstructed twice: by Kazimierz Rozbicki and by Krzysztof Baculewski.

The Concerto has been performed according to both those versions around a dozen times in all. The present recording made by Philippe Giusiano with the Sinfonia Varsovia is based on Rozbicki’s reconstruction, edited by Howard Shelley, who also conducts Sinfonia Varsovia.